The Violet Fairy Book, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale), sentence 14

When any one of us comes back to this place, he must walk round the trees of the other two, and if he sees blood flowing from the mark in the tree he will know that that brother is dead, but if milk flows he will know that his brother is alive.’

Who acts: one, fox, blood, brother, milk · What happens: come back, walk, see, flow, know, be · To what, where: place, trees, blood, mark · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princes and Their Beasts (lithuanian Fairy Tale). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, fox, blood, brother), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	When	when	SCONJ	_	6 comes	mark
2	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 us	case
5	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 one	nmod
6	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	advcl
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 comes	advmod
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 place	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 place	det
10	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 comes	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 comes	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 walk	nsubj
13	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	aux
14	walk	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 trees	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 trees	det
17	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 walk	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 two	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 two	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 two	amod
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 trees	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sees	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 sees	cc
24	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 sees	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sees	nsubj
26	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 walk	conj
27	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sees	obj
28	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 blood	acl
29	from	from	ADP	_	31 mark	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mark	det
31	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flowing	obl
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 tree	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 tree	det
34	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mark	nmod
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 know	nsubj
36	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 know	aux
37	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 mark	acl:relcl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 dead	mark
39	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	40 brother	det
40	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dead	nsubj
41	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 dead	cop
42	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 know	ccomp
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 know	punct
44	but	but	CCONJ	_	50 know	cc
45	if	if	SCONJ	_	47 flows	mark
46	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 flows	nsubj
47	flows	flow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	50 know	advcl
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 know	nsubj
49	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 know	aux
50	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 walk	parataxis
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 alive	mark
52	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 brother	nmod:poss
53	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 alive	nsubj
54	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	55 alive	cop
55	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 know	ccomp
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 walk	punct
57	’	'	PUNCT	_	14 walk	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come back	present	any one of us		this place		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	walk	must	fox		the trees of the other two		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round tree=Trajectory
3	see a condition, not said to happen	present	fox	blood			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer blood=Stimulus
4	flow	gerund	blood not said here		the mark in the tree		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	know	future	fox	the mark in the tree not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer mark=Stimulus
6	is	present	that brother			dead property	tree rules
7	flow a condition, not said to happen	present	milk				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	know	future	fox				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
9	is	present	fox's brother			alive property	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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